Tweet Strongloop, founded by heavy-hitting Node.js committers Bert Belder, Ben Noordhuis and Al Tsang. has come out with a version of the popular server-side language for Red Hat Linux. Since Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is the Linux of choice for many enterprises, this is a significant development for the growing community of Node.js programmers and for enteprise developers who want a supported version of the language for their own work. While there has been…

Tweet The use of Node.js to build web applications is growing like gangbusters, so it’s time it had a big-boy application performance monitoring tool. And that’s what NodeFly Systems says it’s bringing to the table. Node. js is a server-side, event-driven programming language popular among developers — especially JavaScript developers because it lets them use their existing skills to write server as well as client code. Phenomenal growth rate aside, Node.js “doesn’t have a…

Tweet Appfog, the provider of a multi-language, multi-cloud platform as a service, is buying Nodester to beef up its Node.js capabilities. Company CEO Lucas Carlson said the deal — terms of which were not disclosed — will give the company deeper and broader Node.js support and access to more Node.js developers. “Nodester has one of the biggest communities Node programmers and Node.js was the fastest growing language on Appfog” he…

Tweet Ryan Dahl, the creator of Node.js, is taking a break, according to a short post to the Google Node.js news group Monday afternoon. Dahl wrote that he is stepping back from day-to-day Node.js gatekeeping duties, which will now be handled by Isaac Schlueter. Node.js, a server-side JavaScript framework, has ridden a wave of popularity as evidenced by new support by Windows Azure. Developers like using the framework to write server…

Tweet It’s not often that a fundamental change sweeps through the development community with such potential and achieves widespread adoption in under 12 months, but node.js is that. In that same short time developers have turned node.js into the most active git repository, passing Ruby on Rails as the most popular environment for building real-time distributed applications. This pace of deployment has put node.js in the spotlight within not just the…